Ghostream

Boooo! A simple streaming server with authentication and open-source technologies.

This project was developped at Cr@ns to stream events.

Features:

• WebRTC playback with a lightweight web interface.
• Low-latency streaming, sub-second with web player.
• Authentification of incoming stream using LDAP server.

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu

You need at least libsrt 1.4.1. On Ubuntu 20.04 or Debian Buster, you may manually install libsrt1-openssl then libsrt-openssl-dev.

You may clone this repository, then go run main.go for debugging, or go get gitlab.crans.org/nounous/ghostream.

Installation with Docker

An example is given in docs/docker-compose.yml. It uses Traefik reverse proxy.

You can also launch the Docker image using,

docker build . -t ghostream
docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 -p 2112:2112 -p 9710:9710 ghostream

References

• Phil Cluff (2019), Streaming video on the internet without MPEG.
• MDN web docs, Signaling and video calling.
• WebRTC For The Curious